The open carry law, which went into effect this year, also allows campus carry on all public universities. The University of Texas-Austin president says he’ll comply, but one would think he’ll be looking for loopholes.
Topic: Texas
Probably Illegal? University of Texas President Wants Ban on Guns in Dorm Halls
That sounds like it does violate the open carry law of the state of Texas. Photo by ctj71081
Campus Police at Texas Scraps Citation for Preacher who Offended Students
It is a country of free speech, anyways. Their excuse? The officer who wrote the citation was being trained, so it was a rookie mistake. Photo by 50%ChanceofRain
Getting to Know Goethe
Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors from around the world, too often the MLA emphasizes the “Modern” part of their acronym…
Aging at the MLA
One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is to leave attendees at its annual conferences with a new vocabulary that they cannot shake….
From Stalinist Russia, With Love
In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched to the U. S. on investigatory trips got to rather like it. Ilya Ilf and…
Texas Chancellor Warns Faculty of Violating Campus Carry Law
Left-wing faculty members are pushing to ban guns in their classrooms, although Texas law is that guns can be carried on public university grounds. The chancellors told lawmakers that they would comply, but classroom gun…
MLA Deconstructs Middle East
When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences and just about every English Department is represented there. At this year’s meeting in Austin,…
Patchwork Girl @ the MLA
Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss the baby out with its ideological bathwater,” LaSalle professor Emily Mattingly said at this year’s…
Good News for English Majors, Sort Of
When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable…